Animal/People Rock Surfers Theatre Company 29 April – 16 May – You can grab your tickets here. Animal/People has many interesting facets to its beauty – and this is a deeply beautiful production; beautiful as a sensory pleasure that gives deep satisfaction to the mind. The best kind of beauty. The lighting, the sound, the […]
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May
08
Animal/People – Brooke Robinson and our psychic shadows. (Theatre Review)
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May
05
A Town Named War Boy – Ross Mueller builds an intimacy that reaches through the years. (Theatre Review)
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A Town Named War Boy ATYP – The State Library of NSW 29 April to 9 May – You can grab your tickets here. Images Tracy Schramm “Isn’t it marvelous what a man can put up with and yet be happy.” We hear all the time, in the many attempts to bring us closer to […]
May
03
Vice – Melvyn Morrow challenges you in your role as judge, jury and executioner. (Theatre Review)
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Vice King Street Theatre April 21 to May 9. You can grab your tickets here. Image credits to Thomas Adams It’s taken me a long time to write about Vice. I kept changing my approach, and that in itself tells you this is a piece of theatre that is very thought-provoking and worth spending those […]
May
03
Jupiter Ascending – Sci-Fi as it should be or One for the true believers. (Film Review)
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I’ve left my review of this film till the hype wore down, considering I have a monumental personal problem with film reviewing this year that is either born of a certain number of years immersing myself in the critical community, or film reviews getting dramatically worse each year – I suspect my problem is a […]
April
29
The Monster Within – Australian Gothic and the terror of the familiar. (Article)
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I have written a rather long piece for The Essential on Australian Gothic Cinema, a type of film far too under explored and miss understood for my tastes. You can read the full thing at The Essential, here. White-heritage Australians have been making films that can be identified as Australian Gothic (primarily a literary style […]
April
29
Dolores – The right actor, the right character, the right time. (Theatre Review)
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Dolores Old Fitzroy Theatre 28 April to 9 May. You can grab your tickets here. Photo credits – Rupert Reid We’re spared the usual problem with Edward Allen Barker productions, in that Red Line has not fostered two of his down-beat efforts on us together, which helps a great deal in confronting the tough message […]
April
27
Antigone – Timelessness in our time. (Theatre Review)
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Antigone Théâtre Excentrique PACT theatre from 23 April to 2 May. You can grab your tickets here. Images by Emma Lois Just when I was starting to despair that I was seeing too few truly exciting theatrical productions in Sydney in 2015, along comes Théâtre Excentrique’s interpretation of Antigone (pronounced ‘on-tee-gone’ when the Anouilh version is […]
April
27
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter – David Zellner gives us Cohen love. (SFF Film Review)
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Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter opens in Sydney this week, so this review has been revived. Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter is now showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. We shape our reality by our perceptions, and often our world is built around a foundational “truth” that can’t be proven “true”, […]
April
24
Deathtrap – A play on a play within a play. (Theatre Review)
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Deathtrap Darlinghurst Theatre Company At the Eternity Playhouse, 15Apri to 10 May, You can grab your tickets here. Images Helen White Deathtrap is a play within a play within a play on most of the things that we deem important in the play – at the superficial level at least. It throbs with clever association […]
April
22
Haircuts – Mediterranean warmth and sultry Sydney nights. (Theatre Review)
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Haircuts The Greek Theatre April 15 to 26. You can grab your tickets here. Choosing to work within the many facets of our multicultural community, Con Nats has framed Haircuts around multiple narratives that serve to remind us how similar we all are under our various cultural differences. Haircuts is currently on at the really […]
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